Early life Park attended the
Kim Chaek University of Technology in
Pyongyang. He has traveled to China in the past and conducted IT work for the North Korean company "Chosun Expo" in addition to activities conducted on behalf of North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau.
Lazarus group and computer hacking wanted notice Park is a member of a North Korea's government-funded hacking team known as "
Lazarus Group (or APT 38)" and worked for Chosun Expo Joint Venture (aka Korea Expo Joint Venture), a
North Korean government front company, to support the North Korean government's malicious cyber actions. Chosun is affiliated with
Lab 110, a component of North Korea's military intelligence and other Expo Joint Venture had offices in
China (PRC) and North Korea.
Sony Pictures hack In November 2014, the conspirators launched a destructive attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in retaliation for the movie
The Interview, a political action comedy film that depicted assassination of the DPRK's leader by a CIA spy. North Korea denied allegations of hacking.
WannaCry ransomware attack The
United States Department of Justice has charged Park and other members of the
Lazarus group for the
WannaCry ransomware attack of 2017, which involved the spreading of
ransomware that encrypted files on victims' computers after spreading itself to other vulnerable devices on the local network that the compromised computer could access. It would then request ransom payments be made in the form of cryptocurrency in exchange for decryption keys allowing victims to recover their files. The attack affected countless numbers of businesses and organizations throughout the world, including in one incident infecting the United Kingdom's
NHS, where nonfunctional computer systems led to thousands of appointments being canceled. == See also ==